Social Media counter - why information fluency is important What is Information Fluency?
"Information fluency is the ability to apply the skills associated with information literacy, computer literacy and critical thinking to address and solve information problems across disciplines, across academic levels, and across information format structures (Callison).
According to The Associated Colleges of the South (http://www.colleges.org/~if/if_definition.html), using critical thinking skills and appropriate technologies, information fluency integrates the abilities to:
collect the information necessary to consider a problem or issue
employ critical thinking skills in the evaluation and analysis of the information and its sources
formulate logical conclusions and present those conclusions in an appropriate and effective way (Information Age Inquiry)
21st Century Information Fluency-**Full Circle**:
This is an amazing, comprehensive site, covers every aspect of information fluency! Includes: Resource Kit contents (which include curriculum, links, workshops, interactives, and indices that categorize all site content by information fluency competency and ISTE-NETS). Teacher-Librarians MUST check this site out.
The role of the teacher is to provide structure and direction to a student's ability to make meaning (Alan November)
Though our tech-tuned 21st century students are often more fluent in the use of technology than their parents and teachers, they will always need guidance in how to best apply these powerful tools to complex learning and creative tasks (Trilling & Fadel)
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are originated by third parties, though they can be home made. Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the early development of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. Early web widgets provided functions such as link counters and advertising banners. Now you can make them work for you! - Wikipedia
Adding Widgets
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Adding Video & Widgets to a Wikispaces page is really easy
Check out the Comic Life graphic & this wikipage for directions. -
Widgets are mini-applications that may be embedded in websites, blogs, wikis, Nings, etc. They are often dynamic and interactive. You may use widgets to subscribe to RSS feeds and other push content.
Note: Most of the Digital Storytelling Tools and online Video portals provide embed code.
Social Media counter - why information fluency is important
What is Information Fluency?
"Information fluency is the ability to apply the skills associated with information literacy, computer literacy and critical thinking to address and solve information problems across disciplines, across academic levels, and across information format structures (Callison).According to The Associated Colleges of the South (http://www.colleges.org/~if/if_definition.html), using critical thinking skills and appropriate technologies, information fluency integrates the abilities to:
21st Century Information Fluency- **Full Circle**:
This is an amazing, comprehensive site, covers every aspect of information fluency! Includes: Resource Kit contents (which include curriculum, links, workshops, interactives, and indices that categorize all site content by information fluency competency and ISTE-NETS). Teacher-Librarians MUST check this site out.
The role of the teacher is to provide structure and direction to a student's ability to make meaning (Alan November)
Though our tech-tuned 21st century students are often more fluent in the use of technology than their parents and teachers, they will always need guidance in how to best apply these powerful tools to complex learning and creative tasks (Trilling & Fadel)
Mobile Reference
Smart phones
Search Tools
Google Tools
Search Engines
Web Search Strategies in Plain English
http://paper.li/tag/tlchat
http://paper.li/tag/edchat
http://paper.li/joycevalenza
Embedding Information with Widgets
What is a Widget?
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are originated by third parties, though they can be home made. Embeddable chunks of code have existed since the early development of the World Wide Web. Web developers have long sought and used third party code chunks in their pages. Early web widgets provided functions such as link counters and advertising banners. Now you can make them work for you! - WikipediaAdding Widgets
Check out the Comic Life graphic & this wikipage for directions. -
How to Embed Almost Anything in your WebsiteWidgets are mini-applications that may be embedded in websites, blogs, wikis, Nings, etc. They are often dynamic and interactive. You may use widgets to subscribe to RSS feeds and other push content.
Note: Most of the Digital Storytelling Tools and online Video portals provide embed code.
Unquiet Library Pathfinder
Finding Widgets - The ABC widgets
Book Widgets
Learning through Collaboration
Some Collaborative Tools
Blogs - Global Teacher, Wordpress, Blogger,
Wikis - Wikispaces, PBWorks
Google Apps - Documents, Zoho
Netvibes, Pageflakes
Ning
Brainstorming, collaborative note-taking, organizing
Some Collaborative Tools - no login required
Wallwisher Using Wallwisher in the classroom - TBarrett
Drawing Imagination Cubed
Scribble Maps
SitComAnalysis in Wallwisher
Information Portals
RSS - your most important tool for learning - Time Saver number one!
Essential Understandings
RSS - one of the key understandings for using the internet as a tool for your own learning and the learning of others.Merrily down the stream - Will Richardson explains RSS
Google Reader aggregator - where your information collects - all in the one place.
News feeds from the BBC - an example of the use of RSS feeds
New Scientistmagazine - another example
Specific news search on ABC News (water buyback Murray Darling)| Docklands
Evaluating Information
You can't believe everything on the Internet
Hoax websitesInformation Literacy
Research Skills with Ergo - State Library of Victoria
Cooperative Library Instruction Project resources (video tutorials aimed at the university relating to topic development, searching, databases, evaluating, documentation, more!)
Information Literacy Resource Bank Synthesizing/Analyzing InformationInformation Literacy Resources from Alan November
Read write think write think - many literacy support interactives
Referencing and Bibliography
EasyBib
Son of Citation Machine
Noodle Tools
Creative Commons (copyright) - an important understanding when students are making multimedia book trailers, digital stories etc.
Wanna Work Together? from John Bachir on Vimeo.
CC Resources to reuse, remix & share
Staying safe on the Internet - Configuring your Facebook privacy settings